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O Morpheus!
by Helen Kay

“Thou hast not known the joys of sleeping
Thou has not dreamed”

J.Barlas, The Mystic Cave

There’s a shut-eye shortage. All night,
  Lamps, thick as sun-spit, turn cogs.
Tick-tock ker-ching won’t let us rest.

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